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You\u2019ve paid hundreds of dollars for a ticket and braved the pouring rain to watch your favourite artist perform in what should be an unforgettable evening.<\/p>\n

But three hours and over 40 songs later, you get home and realised you can\u2019t remember a thing.<\/p>\n

It sounds almost unbelievable, but many Taylor Swift fans are claiming to suffer from \u201cpost-concert amnesia\u201d.<\/p>\n

Psychologists say emotions and time may be behind the phenomenon.<\/p>\n

From out-of-body experiences to entering a dream-like state, Swift\u2019s fans \u2013 or Swifties as they prefer to be known \u2013 have taken to social media in recent days to reveal their guilt at not being able to remember key moments from the Eras tour.<\/p>\n

Amnesia can be quite a serious symptom, referring to the loss of memories, experiences and information.<\/p>\n

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But Dr Michelle Phillips, a senior lecturer in music psychology from the Royal Northern College of , says the idea of post-concert amnesia is not as scary as it sounds.<\/p>\n

It will rarely be the case that fans have absolutely no memory of being at a concert.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, it\u2019s likely to be one of the things they remember attending for the rest of their lives,\u201d says Dr Phillips.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s simply that they encode some aspects of the event in memory, and not others.\u201d<\/p>\n

So whether you tend to focus more on your favourite artist\u2019s dance moves, or just enjoy being at a show with your loved ones, people pay attention to whatever is important to them \u2013 and encode memories of these things, rather than the music.<\/p>\n

The old saying \u201ctime flies when you\u2019re having fun\u201d is an easy way to think about the idea of post-concert amnesia.<\/p>\n

According to Dr Phillips, when fans are excited and so immersed in a moment, they can feel as though \u201ctime has suddenly passed\u201d and they haven\u2019t been able to properly process everything they\u2019ve just seen, heard and felt.<\/p>\n

Gone are the days when musicians perform on an empty stage with just their microphones and an instrument.<\/p>\n

These days fans are treated to mind-blowing spectacles, with strobe lights, massive props and more costume changes than you can keep track of \u2013 so it\u2019s no surprise you are not going to remember everything you have experienced after having to process so much.<\/p>\n

Anushka Sri watched Suga from Korean K-pop\u2019s BTS perform in Los Angeles on 11 May.<\/p>\n

She says most concerts she goes to have \u201celements of surprise all the time\u201d as well as intensive light movement and fireworks which she thinks \u201ckind of causes memory loss\u201d.<\/p>\n

Anushka feels she could tell friends about \u201cone or two moments\u201d from the concert but can\u2019t recollect the whole set because \u201cit\u2019s just hazy\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dr Helen Prior, senior lecturer at the University of Hull, is interested to see whether some of the memories and emotions Taylor Swift\u2019s fans have forgotten can be recalled when they listen to her songs at a later date.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s listening to your first wedding song or playing your break-up anthem on repeat, music is an art form that has the power to transform you back to a particular time in your life.<\/p>\n

So for Swifties worried about having forgotten bits of the show, listening to the set list again might just make all those memories come flooding back.<\/p>\n

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